Foxclone V46 Return to contents Foxclone User Guide To navigate round the guide: • Any item in the contents can be clicked to go to that item. • At the top of every page is a link that will go to the contents list. • Any items highlighted will go to the item, e.g. this will go to the contents list. 22 August 2021 Page 1 of 58 Foxclone V46 Return to contents Contents Contents ................................................................................................................................ 2 What is it? ............................................................................................................................. 4 How should it be used? ......................................................................................................... 5 Installation ............................................................................................................................ 6 Linux ....................................................................................................................... 6 Windows .................................................................................................................... 8 Boot ................................................................................................................................... 9 The desktop ......................................................................................................................... 11 Foxclone .............................................................................................................................. 12 Backup ................................................................................................................................. 13 What’s in a backup? ............................................................................................................ 18 Deleting backup files ............................................................................................... 19 Restore ................................................................................................................................ 20 Clone ................................................................................................................................. 23 Clone drive to drive ................................................................................................. 24 Clone File to Drive ................................................................................................... 26 Verify ................................................................................................................................. 28 Settings ............................................................................................................................... 30 What else is in the iso? ........................................................................................................ 32 Accessories .............................................................................................................. 32 Fox guide ........................................................................................................................ 32 File manager ................................................................................................................... 32 Image viewer .................................................................................................................. 33 PDF reader ...................................................................................................................... 33 Screenshot ...................................................................................................................... 33 Text editor ...................................................................................................................... 33 Internet.................................................................................................................... 34 Pale Moon ...................................................................................................................... 34 System tools ............................................................................................................ 35 Disks ............................................................................................................................ 35 Disk Usage Analyser........................................................................................................ 36 File recovery ................................................................................................................... 37 Gparted .......................................................................................................................... 37 GSmartControl ................................................................................................................ 37 Hardware Info................................................................................................................. 37 Terminal ......................................................................................................................... 38 TestDisk .......................................................................................................................... 38 Preferences ............................................................................................................. 39 Display ............................................................................................................................ 39 Connecting to a network ..................................................................................................... 40 Preparing and formatting drives .......................................................................................... 41 Formatting a drive with Disks .................................................................................. 41 22 August 2021 Page 2 of 58 Foxclone V46 Return to contents Formatting a drive with gparted ............................................................................. 44 Re-sizing/adding partitions with gparted ................................................................ 46 Partition tables .................................................................................................................... 48 MBR partition tables ............................................................................................... 48 GPT partition tables................................................................................................. 50 Bootloaders and boot modes .................................................................................. 51 Known issues ....................................................................................................................... 53 Troubleshooting .................................................................................................................. 54 Take a screenshot .................................................................................................... 54 Run foxclone in a terminal ...................................................................................... 54 To contact us ........................................................................................................... 54 How does it work? ............................................................................................................... 55 Version History .................................................................................................................... 56 The legal stuff ...................................................................................................................... 58 22 August 2021 Page 3 of 58 Foxclone V46 Return to contents What is it? 1. Foxclone is a Linux based image backup, restore and clone tool using a simple point and click interface. It takes images of the partitions on your hard drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD) and stores them for later restoration. Image files can optionally be compressed to save space. Foxclone is a front end for the Linux terminal utility partclone. Backup and restore: • GPT and MBR/legacy/MSDOS partition tables. • FAT32, NTFS and ext4 partitions. • Unknown partition types*. • Encrypted partitions*. Clone: • Direct drive to drive. • To drive from a full backup. • From a larger drive to a smaller drive**. Limitations: • 64 bit systems only. • Local drives only • RAID – unlikely. • LVM – no. • English only. * e.g. the MS reserved partition in a windows 10 installation or a LUKS encrypted partition. foxclone does a byte-by-byte copy of the whole partition as it is unable to determine the used blocks. So, dependent on the size of the partition, it can take a long time ** as long as the total size of partitions on the source drive is less than the size of the new drive and all the unallocated space is at the end of the drive. 22 August 2021 Page 4 of 58 Foxclone V46 Return to contents How should it be used? 2. It cannot be stressed strongly enough – a partition backup utility such as foxclone or clonezilla or any other image backup tool should not be used as your only backup tool. 3. A partition backup utility is there for disaster recovery: • A failed or failing drive. • An operating system borked (usually by the user) to the extent that it will no longer boot. 4. It should not be used as a daily backup tool, why? • It is a manual process, you cannot automate it, at some point you will forget to do it. • It is slow, you have to backup up complete partitions. There is no